Posted on 09/04/2008 8:02:58 AM PDT by Yanni.Znaio
Source: http://www.house.gov/pelosi/biography/bio.html
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Biography
Since 1987, Nancy Pelosi has represented California's Eighth District in the House of Representatives. The Eighth District includes most of the City of San Francisco including Golden Gate Park, Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown, and many of the diverse neighborhoods that make San Francisco a vibrant and prosperous community.Overwhelmingly elected by her colleagues in the fall of 2002 as Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi is the first woman in American history to lead a major party in the U.S. Congress. Before being elected Leader, she served as House Democratic Whip for one year and was responsible for the party's legislative strategy in the House. On January 4, 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
As a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, Pelosi fought for America's families. She has been a leader in increasing educational opportunity, protecting workers, and promoting health care, including women's health and the creation of a nationwide health tracking network to examine the links between environmental pollutants and chronic disease. She has been a strong proponent of increased investments in health research, and has secured funding to double the budget for the National Institutes of Health. Pelosi also has successfully defeated repeated attempts to reduce funding for international family planning programs.
One of Pelosi's first legislative victories was the creation of the Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS program. She has also worked to accelerate development of an HIV vaccine, expand access to Medicaid for people living with HIV, and increase funding for the Ryan White CARE Act, the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative and other programs vital to people living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS.
Pelosi also successfully increased access to health insurance for people with disabilities by ensuring continuation of their health care coverage. She was instrumental in passing legislation to assist nonprofit organizations in the creation of affordable housing.
As a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for 10 years (the longest continuous period of service in the committee's history) including two years as the Ranking Democrat, Pelosi worked to ensure that policymakers and military commanders are provided with the timely and accurate intelligence necessary to guide diplomatic initiatives, succeed in combat, and protect U.S. military forces.
In meetings around the world with U.S. and foreign intelligence leaders, Pelosi has urged for greater attention to the threats to international security posed by the proliferation of technologies associated with the weapons of mass destruction and global terrorism.
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Pelosi led congressional reviews of the U.S. intelligence and security agencies and authored legislation to create an independent national commission to assess the overall performance of the federal government before, during, and after the attacks.
Pelosi has long been an advocate for human rights around the world. She has fought to improve China's human rights record, attempting to tie trade to increased human rights standards. She has also been a leader on efforts to free the people of Tibet.
A leader on the environment at home and abroad, Pelosi secured passage of a provision in the International Development and Finance Act of 1989 which requires the World Bank and all the regional multilateral development banks to review the potential environmental impacts of development projects for which they provide funding and to make these environmental assessments publicly available. Known as the "Pelosi Amendment," it has become a significant tool for indigenous, nongovernmental organizations around the world.
Pelosi has also served on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics) and the Banking and Financial Services Committee. She has chaired the Congressional Working Group on China and has served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic Study Group.
Personal Story
Pelosi hails from a strong family tradition of public service. Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., served as Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years, after representing the city for five terms in Congress. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as Mayor of Baltimore.
Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. in 1962. Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, a native of San Francisco, have five children: Nancy Corinne, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and Alexandra, and seven grandchildren.
Heard anybody in the Media or on the Left ask HER any questions about whether a woman with five kids can or should hold a high-level political office?
See also hypocrites, (plural noun)
And they deny that there's a double standard.
I guess that they either have "many standards"-- or none at all.
Y'all don't forget to use your napkins, okay?
Awww....how sweet!
She had five bouncing little bundles of burdens!
Correction: According to Obama “She had five bouncing little bundles of punishment!”
I believe Pelosi raised her kids before she went into politics
better check out your facts before gloating
No wonder she is so bitter.
She was “PUNISHED with a bay’-buh”, not once but FIVE times...
There’s no WAY she could have responsibly juggled motherhood AND a seat in the House of Representatives, IS THERE???
It’s different.
Palin actually raises her children.
Pelosi hire people to do it for her.
Same with Ms. Obama -— she’s been a lawyer with her kids in day care all their lives. THAT IS OK. Raising kids yourself is BAD.
Keep it straight.
/sarcasm/
True but the alliteration value would have been diminished....:))
Pelosi has five (in the words of Obama) diseases - got it.
then Pelosi has been a very naught woman.
then Pelosi has been a very naught woman.
then Pelosi has been a very naughty woman.
then ms pelosi has been a very naughty woman. doesn’t she know what causes her go get these 5 burdens of punishment that she has been cursed with?
ping
Your comparison is not valid.
Where is 9% Nancy hiding these days. We haven’t heard a peep out of queen b.
Uh. . and now Pelosi has five great big old grownup FETUSES, I suppose one could say.
The Nance could afford a lot more help than the average person, and so can Sarah, who seems to have all the help she needs with the two little ones. Most of her BABIES look pretty much like they’re fairly near grown anyway.
Okay, let's dig deeper.
She's been in Congress since 1987. And that was when her youngest child graduated from high school, according to Wikipedia.
So we can assume a birth date of 1970 for this kid, unless he or she repeated a few grades (we won't, I'm just being facetious.)
However, that disingenuously implies that she was a stay-at-home mom up until that point.
But at usliberals.about.com, it indicates that
Several points about this.
First, you don't go from "stuffing envelopes" to the chair of the Northern California Democratic Party in one year.
There are way too many activist Democrats (read: competition for the job) for somebody to rise that quickly in the Party apparatus.
Second, if she's from a "family with deep political connections", well, chances are, if you come from one of those, you probably start getting involved in things political not too long after you learn to not wet yourself.
I suspect she started earlier than 1976. But let's let that pass and assume that the date is valid.
In 1976, her youngest kid would have been five or six years old. Small enough to fall into the "Palin brood" category.
With others ranging older, perhaps through high school.
Just like Palin's kids.
The underlying point remains, and I really just used Pelosi because the kid count is the same.
And the under-underlying point is that nobody asks a *man* this question.
Ever.
I was doing research while you posted this. I found it, too.
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